Chapter Eight

~ Remy ~

"Who did you think it was?" I glanced over my shoulder. My heart dropped when I saw Vanya wince. Guess that told me all I needed to know. "Can you let me go?"

I needed to wash the scent of sex off of me and then seriously think about getting the hell out of here, especially if Vanya was here now.

"Stop, stop, stop." I cried out when Vanya tried to pull away, the pain that flared through my ass almost indescribable. I gripped his hip with my hand, keeping him from moving away.

"What"s wrong?" Concern laced Vanya"s voice.

"It hurts."

"What hurts, Remy?"

"There"s something..." I really didn"t want to say it. I didn"t even want to think about it. "Just don"t move."

"Remy."

"How did you end up here anyway?" More specifically, how did he end up in my ass? It wasn"t like I would have turned him down if he had offered, but I don"t remember him offering. I don"t remember anything until I woke up with him fucking me.

And man, that had been really good. If he wasn"t so embarrassed by the fact that he had fucked me, I"d ask him to do it again. I just refused to have sex with someone that was ashamed of being with me.

"I"ve been here for a couple of months, me and my friend Hudson."

"And where is he?"

I wasn"t into sharing.

"He"s in one of the other cabins," Vanya replied. "How did you get up here?"

"Yeri invited a bunch of us up for the week."

Vanya stilled. "How many of you?"

"Um..." I had to think about it for a minute. "Ten of us including me and Yeri. We"re all spread out in the other cabins. Since I didn"t want to share with the others, Yeri put me in this one. I guess I can move in with Yeri now that you are here."

I gasped when Vanya"s grip on me tightened and he let out a very un-human growl. "You"re not going anywhere."

My eyebrows shot up as I glanced over my shoulder. The vivid blue eyes staring back at me were the same eyes I had always looked into, but there was something different about them. Something more intense and almost feral.

"Vanya."

Vanya"s upper lip curled back as he snarled, "You"re mine!"

I blinked at him.

Vanya"s head snapped back and suddenly he was blinking back at me. "I"m so sorry. I don"t know where that came from."

I wouldn"t mind being his, but I wasn"t going to mention that now. "Something weird is going on here. You feel it, right?"

I wasn"t sure what that something was, but it was definitely there.

When Vanya glanced down to where our bodies were still connected, I said, "I wasn"t talking about that." Well, not directly. "Something else is going on."

Vanya"s brow furrowed as if he was deep in thought. "I don"t suppose you saw something green and glowing—"

"Fall from the night sky night before last and explode?" I asked.

"Yeah."

"I did, and those stupid little green sparkles made my skin burn."

Vanya quickly started running his hands along my skin, his blue eyes so intense that I wondered if he was trying to see right down to the bone.

"There are no marks or anything," I explained. "I just felt like my skin was burning when those little green sparkles landed on me."

I almost cried when the thick cocked lodged in my ass suddenly went limp and slid out of me. I just wasn"t sure if I wanted to protest that it was gone or get angry that it had been there in the first place.

And I didn"t want to think about it long enough to figure out. I had seen the look on Vanya"s face. I don"t know how we ended up together, but I knew if he"d had a choice, he wouldn"t have picked me.

"Let"s put this conversation on hold for the moment," I said as I rolled away and quickly stood up. "I"m going to go jump in the shower and get dressed. We can talk after that."

I wasn"t even done talking before I headed for the bathroom. I paused in the doorway. "The indoor bathroom? Great idea."

I heard Vanya"s chuckle as I walked inside and shut the door. I leaned back against it for a moment, drawing in a deep breath. I had always fantasized about having sex with Vanya and it had been everything I had always dreamed of.

It was just too bad he hadn"t wanted it as much as I had.

I banged my head back against the hard wooden door. Why did I do these things to myself? Time and time again, I got interested in guys that were unavailable or out of my league.

Granted, my dating life hadn"t been alive all that long, but I always seemed to choose guys that were just out for a quick fling, nothing long term. Sex was all well and good, but I wanted it to mean something.

I showered quickly, once again just using the washcloth. The scent of my usual body wash still made my stomach clench. I don"t know what that was all about, and I had too many other things on my mind to care.

Once I was clean and dry, I wrapped the towel around my waist and then went across the small hallway to the bedroom, which was thankfully empty. I dressed in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt since my jogging pants and tank top were nowhere to be found.

If this kept happening, I wouldn"t have any clothes left.

Once I was dressed, I took a deep breath and then walked out of the bedroom. Vanya was dressed and standing at the stove cooking something that smelled delicious.

I swallowed tightly when he glanced in my direction.

"Hungry?"

I nodded. "Starving."

He gestured to the cabinets by the refrigerator with the spatula in his hand. "Can you get some plates down?"

"Yeah, sure." I walked over to the cupboard and grabbed two plates, setting them on the counter close to the stove. "What are you making?"

"Nothing fancy," Vanya replied. "Just a meat omelet."

"Sounds good."

Vanya shot me a smile before plating one of the omelets. "Go sit down and eat."

I took the plate he held out to me and walked over to the dining room table to sit down. I had seen inside the refrigerator, and while it was fully stocked, I don"t remember stuff like this being in there.

I moaned when I took my first bite.

It was that damn good.

But then I froze when I heard something clatter to the floor. I turned just in time to see Vanya bending down to pick up the spatula. He quickly walked over and dropped it in the sink before grabbing another one.

He kept shooting me strange looks.

"What?" I finally asked after swallowing another bite.

"Can you not moan?"

The food that I had just swallowed tried to climb back up my throat. I laid my fork down and then wiped my mouth with a napkin.

"Sorry," I whispered, beyond mortified.

Vanya"s shoulders slumped and his gaze dropped to the floor. "No, I"m sorry. It"s just that...well, every time you do that, it makes me think about earlier."

"Oh."

Vanya turned off the stove, grabbed his plate, and then walked over to sit down across from me. "I guess we need to talk about that."

No, we didn"t. In fact, I would be thrilled if it never came up again.

"It"s okay," I said instead of stating what I was really feeling. "I know you didn"t intend for it to happen so let"s just forget about it."

"I"m not going to lie to you, Remy. I didn"t intend for it to happen, but it did and we need to talk about that."

Yeah, no.

I stood up, carried my dishes to the sink, and washed them off before putting them in the dish drainer. "I really don"t think there is anything to talk about," I said as I started out of the kitchen area.

Vanya grabbed my wrist as I passed him. "Please, Remy."

I sighed and then glanced at him. I wanted to say I glanced down at him, but that would be a lie. Sitting, he was almost as tall as I was standing. I don"t remember him being this tall.

Vanya had a small furrow between his eyebrows as he gazed down at where he was holding me. He started rubbing his thumb across my wrist. "Your skin is very soft."

Huh?

"Uh, thank you?"

My eyes almost bugged out of my head when he brought my wrist up to his face and sniffed at the underside. "You smell good, too. Really good."

"I smell good?"

Was he high?

I jerked my hand away when he licked me. My jaw had to be hanging down to my knees. I took a hasty step back. "You licked me."

"Remy." Vanya"s voice had a rough guttural sound to it when he spoke. "Don"t back away from me."

He wasn"t high. He was insane.

I turned to run, but something crashed into me from behind, driving me down onto the hardwood floor. I grunted in pain when I landed. I tried to get up on my hands and knees so I could get away until I heard a very threatening growl.

Growl?

My eyes rounded when I glanced over my shoulder and realized that there was a large wolf standing over the top of me. Before I could move, the wolf snapped forward, his fangs sinking into my shoulder.

My scream was silenced when he growled. I went perfectly still, terrified he would rip out my throat, but nothing could keep me from shaking in fear.

After a moment, the wolf extracted his fangs from my shoulder and then licked he bite wound clean. As soon as I felt the pressure on my back lesson, I scrambled forward as fast as I could. When I hit the wall, I turned and looked back.

God, that was a really big wolf. Massive. He stood hands above me. Most of his fur was black, but there was white around his eyes and down his muzzle, almost as if it was framing his vivid blue eyes.

Vivid blue eyes...

I glanced behind the wolf for any sign of Vanya, but all I saw were the tattered remains of clothes. Vanya wasn"t there.

Or was he?

"No," I whispered as I shook my head. What I was thinking was too outlandish. Like other worldly outlandish. Maybe I had read one too many paranormal romance novels. "Vanya?"

The wolf dropped down to the floor and stared at me.

I swallowed tightly and then scooted just a bit closer.

The wolf crawled closer.

When I scooted forward again, so did the wolf. We were now less than a foot away from each other. The wolf stilled, not moving even a hair. It was as if he was just waiting for me to touch him.

So, I did.

My hand trembled as I slowly reached out to touch the wolf, giving him plenty of time to pull away, and praying I wouldn"t get my hand bitten off in the process.

When my fingers sank into his fur, I gasped. "So soft."

I hadn"t expected that.

I didn"t realize I had moved closer until the wolf laid his head down on my lap. I chuckled nervously as I scratched behind his ears. "Such a sweet wolf."

What am I saying?

It"s a freaking wolf!

I clenched my fingers in the wolf"s soft fur as tears sprouted to my eyes. If this was merely a wolf, I might be dead in seconds, ripped apart. If this was Vanya, well, I didn"t know because that would mean something really freaky was going on here.

"Vanya," I whispered in desperation, "if you"re in there, please come back. I"m really scared."

Terrified actually, but who wouldn"t be?